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Medical: FG Solicits World Bank’s Support On Emergencies - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 9, 2019
TheMinister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, has solicited the support of the World Bankin establishing an effective medical emergency transportation network in ruralcommunities.
Ehanire,who made the appeal in a statement issued by Enefaa Bob-Manuel, Head of Pressand Public Relations of the ministry, in Abuja, said this would help inaddressing challenges of medical emergencies in Nigeria.
Bob-Manuelsaid the minister spoke when he received a World Bank team on mission for theMulti-phased Programmatic Approach MPA: Improved Child Survival for HumanCapital, Nigeria State Health Investment Project NSHIP and Polio.
Hesaid plans were underway for the establishment of an emergency response outfitby the ministry to tackle emergency cases towards curbing preventable deathsdue to abject poverty.
Ehaniredisclosed that a committee would be set up to work-out modalities for theestablishment of the project.
Leaderof the Team, Dr Wole Odutolu, intimated the minister with the progress reporton World Bank health projects in Nigeria.

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Medical Supply: NAFDAC To Strengthen Regulatory Framework For Security - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 18, 2019
The National Agencyfor Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC says it will strengthenits regulatory framework to enhance security in the nation’s pharmaceuticalsupply chain.
Director, Registrationand Regulations of NAFDAC, Monica Eimunjeze, made the disclosure at the ongoing2nd African GS1 Healthcare Conference on Wednesday in Lagos.
Eimunjeze spoke on thetopic: “Strengthening Supply Chain Security’’.
She said the agencyhas a statutory responsibility to safeguard public health, stressing thatNAFDAC had imbibed best international practices and aligned with globalregulatory standards.
According to her,legal framework, regulatory oversight, deployment of technology andcollaboration between national, regional and global partners will bestrengthened to ensure supply chain security.
Eimunjeze said NAFDACwould continue to pursue quality, safety and efficacy in pharmaceuticalproducts, adding that emphasis on quality was paramount in healthcare.

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Medical Treatment: El-Zakzaky, Wife Set To Travel To India - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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August 12, 2019
Leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky and his wife, Zeenat, are set to travel to India for medical treatment.
Read This: Killing Of Policemen: Security Experts Urge Systematic, Impartial Investigation Of Army
Theyarrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja on Monday where theywould be taking off from, following the order of the Kaduna State High courtwhich granted them leave to undergo treatment at an Indian hospital of theirchoice.
Thisfollowed an application by El-Zakzaky’s counsel and human rights activist, FemiFalana, SAN, to allow them to travel for treatment as a result of their deterioratinghealth condition.
JusticeDarius Khobo, thereafter, granted the leave on August 5, adding that the IMNleader and his wife would be accompanied abroad by officials of the KadunaState Government.
Theirtrial is expected to resume as soon as they return from the trip.

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Medical Treatment: FG Says El-Zakzaky Frustrating Indian Hospital Authorities - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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August 15, 2019
TheFederal Government has said that the leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria,IMN Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, who was taken to India for medical treatment, wasfrustrating the Indian hospital instead of subject himself to treatment.
TheIslamic Movement of Nigeria, who was arrested in 2015 following a clash betweenhis members and military personnel in Zaria, was granted bail on medicalgrounds, following a Kaduna High Court order on August 5.
El-Zakzaky,along with wife, traveled to India  for medical treatment, aftergovernment and relevant agencies took steps to comply with the order.
Butthe Federal Government, in a statement in Abuja, said that the religious leaderis frustrating the authorities of the Indian hospital where he was to betreated.
Thestatement added that El-Zakzaky refused to subject himself to preliminarymedical checks after State officials resisted his pressure to hand over hisInternational Passport to him.
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Medicine: FG Task Nigeria Natural Medicine Development Agency To Discover More Plants - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 19, 2019
The Federal Government has charged the NigeriaNatural Medicine Development Agency, NNMDA to discover more plants that would providesolutions for illnesses.
The Minister of Science and Technology, OgbonnayaOnu gave the task during his ‘One Day Working Visit’ to the agency in Lagos.
The visit was to inaugurate projects completed bythe NNMDA.
The projects include the Intellectual Property andTechnology Transfer Office and the agency’s Multipurpose Hall.
According to Onu, the agency plays a critical rolebecause of its work in improving the quality of life of Nigerians.
He commended the management and staff for puttingthe resources made available to the agency to proper use.
Onu pledged the support of his Ministry in ensuringthat the agency gets all the support it needs to improve on the health servicedelivery in the nation.Recalling his first visit to the agency in 2015,the Minister who took a tour of the facility and products exhibited, expressedsatisfaction on much the agency had achieved.


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Member Of Kida-Led NBBF Board Says FG Ban Counter-Productive, Mulls Court Intervention - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 17, 2022
AbdulKadir also said the Kida-led NBBF would be heading to the courts to stop the implementation of the controversial order in the interest of the nation.
The representative decried the fact that the ban was coming after the D’Tigress had worked hard to qualify for the 2022 FIBA Women’s World Cup slated for Sydney in Australia in September. He said the men’s team, D’Tigers, would also lose out on qualification for the 2023 FIBA Men’s World Cup.
He noted that the ban is in violation of Act 9.7 of the FIBA Statutes on third party interference, which in this case is a violation by federal government.
On his part, Musa Kida, the NBBF factional President has also expressed shock and dismay regarding the ban.

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Members Elect Induction: House Of Reps Postpones Plenary. - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 16, 2023
Clerk of the House, Yahaya Danzaria, disclosed this in a statement made on the official Twitter handle of the lower house today, noting that the shift will allow returning members-elect to take part in the second batch of the ongoing induction programme.
However, he expressed regret for any conveniences the postponement may have caused.
This would be the second time the leadership of the house is postponing the resumption of plenary.
Recall that the plenary was initially postponed from resuming on March 14 to March 21, 2023. Though the plenary was held on March 21, it was adjourned to Tuesday, May 15, 2023.

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Members Elect Induction: Reps Adjourn Plenary To May 16. - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 10, 2023
The announcement is contained in a statement by the Clerk of the House, Dr Yahaya Danzaria, on Tuesday in Abuja.
He said the earlier adjourned date of May 9, will no longer stand as it would not allow members to participate actively in the ongoing induction programme of the 10th Assembly.


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Members’ Welfare: ASUU Factionalised, Ngige Confirms Receipt Of New Application - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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October 7, 2019
The Ministry of Labourand Employment has confirmed receipt of application for the registration of anew University Union, Congress of University Academics, CONUA, to be formed outof the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU.
The Minister of Labourand Employment Chris Ngige said the ministry had in April received theapplication from CONUA to be registered as a new union in the university.
He added that theapplication was awaiting deliberation as stipulated by Trade Union laws.According to him, a committee will be set up to define modalities before itwill be approved.
The NationalCoordinator of CONUA, Niyi Ismaheel explained that the congress had a solepurpose of redefining unionism and restore peace and stability in theuniversities in Nigeria.
It would be recalledthat Ismaheel while addressing journalists at the end of its first NationalStakeholders’ Forum at the Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU Ile-Ife, said theunion was formed with the goal to formulate a new approach of engagement inaddressing the welfare of its members.

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Meningitis Outbreak: Nigeria Records 532 Cases, 124 Deaths - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 2, 2023
The cases were reported from 81 local government areas in 22 states, including the Federal Capital Territory, FCT from October 1, 2022, to April 16, 2023.
This is according to the epidemiology situation of the disease in Nigeria as of April 27, released by the World Health Organisation, WHO.
The report indicated that males account for 57 percent of the total suspected cases.
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Meningitis: Public Health Consultant Urges FG To Provide Adequate Vaccines - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 4
April 10, 2019
A public health physician, Uthman Mubashir has called the Federal Government to provide adequate vaccines for the prevention of meningitis in the country.
Mubashir, a Consultant at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital who gave the advice in Ilorin said that the country was presently contending with extreme heat wave and an outbreak of the disease in parts of the country.
According to the consultant, meningitis tends to set in at the peak of the dry season due to the hot weather. He described meningitis as an inflammation of the membranes meninges surrounding the brain and spinal cord.
Mubashir added that the swelling of the membranes always triggered symptoms such as headache, fever, and a stiff neck. He blamed the extreme heat wave on the activities of man, saying that the destruction of the eco-system as well as tree felling were some of the cause of the hot weather.

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Mental Health Day: WHO Official Seeks Collaboration To Prevent Suicide - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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October 10, 2019
An officialof the World Health Organisation, WHO in Lagos, Memuna Esan says collaborationamong the media, government and civil society will go a long way in preventingcases of suicide.
Esan, who represented,the WHO Country Director stated this while addressing students and variousstakeholders at the commemoration of the 2019 World Mental Health Day, with thetheme “Mental Health Promotion and Suicide Prevention, which is celebrated onOctober 10 every year.
The event,organised by the United Nations Information Centre, in collaboration with WHOand Mental Health Foundation, highlighted the challenges of mental health andadvocated for solutions.
He saidmental health is intertwined with every aspect of life, adding that civilsocieties are essential in tackling the menace of suicide.

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Mental Health: Foundation Harps On Ending Stigmatisation - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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October 16, 2019
A Non-Governmental Organization,  NGO, TeenzGlobal Foundation has stressed the need to end all forms of stigmatisation,discrimination and abuse against persons facing mental health challenge.
The Founder of the group, Ijeoma Sorochi made the callduring the third edition of the dialogue on the “Power of Your Mind Project: AnEffective Suicide Prevention Response Strategy for Young People in Nigeria.”
Sorochi identified stigmatisation, discrimination;substance abuse, financial challenges, depression and insecurity as some of thecauses of mental health challenge, which she said had increased suicide ratesin the society.
She said mental health is described as the case ofsomeone being mad, there is stigma attached to it.
A motivational speaker and Pastor at Christ EmbassyChurch, Evangeline Micheal, advised youths to digest materials that would bebeneficial for their growth and development.

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Mercy Corps, IMC Engage Kaduna Communities On Mediation, De-Escalation Of Conflicts - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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November 24, 2021
The engagement, under the Community Initiatives to Promote Peace, CIPP project, is meant to empower communities with mediation tools to tackle issues that may worsen to conflict.
The delegation, including representation from Plateau state was at Unguwan Rimi community, where it engaged community, religious and youth leaders on the project.
The District Head of Unguwan Rimi, Shehu Maikatifa, In his remark, appreciated the delegation and assured that members of the community now live as one family. Maikatifa who was represented by the Chief Imam of the community, Musa Yahaya said there is relative peace with no issue of religion or ethnic crisis in recent times. He however called on stakeholders to hold similar engagement with their neighbours in Plateau state, to advance peaceful coexistence across all areas.
Evelyn Ezekiel from Bokos Local Government in Plateau state appreciated the programme, saying it had deepened their knowledge on peace mediation and pledged to cascade the knowledge in her community.
A permanent commissioner Rabeca Saku, who received the delegates, pledged to strengthen collaboration with the two organisations and other stakeholders to achieve sustainable pace in the state.

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Merkel Hosts African Leaders For Business Summit - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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November 19, 2019
The leaders of 12 African countries will meet GermanChancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin for discussions on boosting business investmentin Africa.
They will take part in the Compact for AfricaConference, an initiative set up during the German presidency of the G20 in2017 to promote private sector investment in Africa.
It aims to create jobs, improve lives, and reducethe number of asylum seekers coming to Europe.
Since the 2015 refugee crisis in Germany, thegovernment has launched various projects to help improve African economies butGerman businesses have been slow to respond.

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Messi can leave at end of season –Bartomeu - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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Metallurgical Sector: FG Creating Enabling Environment For Growth - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 23, 2019
The Permanent Secrtary, Federal Ministry of Minesand Steel Development Abdulkadir Muazu, says the Federal Government is creatingthe enabling environment for the growth of the metallurgical sector.
Muazu, who was represented by Director, Reform andCoordination, Zachaus Ate, said this on Wednesday,  at the 2nd Nigeria Metallurgical IndustryStakeholders Forum, an Engagement with the South-West Zone in Lagos.
The Forum was entitled: ‘Developing SMEs in theMetal Sector for Economic Diversification, Job Creation and NationalProsperity’.
According to him, steel and other metal developmentsaccount for sustainable growth of any country.
Muazu said that if the sector was fully developed,it would create jobs for over 50, 000 people.


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Methyl Bromide: NAFDAC Bans Product As A Fumigant For Pests - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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February 21, 2019
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration andControl, NAFDAC has announced ban on methyl bromide as a pest control fumigant.
A statement by Director General of the agency Moji Adeyeyesaid that the fumigant was toxic and dangerous to human health. She said thatmethyl bromide could cause incalculable damage to the nervous system.
Adeyeye added that its odourless nature, and the fact thatsymptoms of its damage to the human body took a long time to manifest made itmore dangerous.
She said that the agency was presently carrying outsurveillance aimed at identifying importers of the dangerous pesticide forsanction.
She advised farmers and importers and dealers inagricultural inputs to desist from using methyl bromide, urging them to contactthe closest NAFDAC office to them for safer alternatives.

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Mexico: At Least 13 Killed In Highway Crash. - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 16, 2023
The vehicles crashed on a road between the cities of Zaragoza and Hidalgo in the border state of Tamaulipas.
Images shared by authorities showed the passenger van almost entirely destroyed by fire, with the semi-truck also severely burned.
The number of victims could increase, said an official from the prosecutor’s office, who did not want to be identified, as there were indications that the truck driver’s family was with him and may have died too.
Early indications were that the driver may have fled.
Local media reported that more than 20 people may have died in the crash and resulting fire, but first responders were still working to fully understand the situation at the scene, the prosecutor’s office official said.
The victims may have all been members of one family who had rented the van to drive to the northern city of Monterrey in Veracruz, local media reported.
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Mexico Defends Soldiers Who Fired Tear Gas At Migrants On Its Border - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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January 22, 2020
The Mexican government has defended the country’s National Guard, whose soldiers fired tear gas at hundreds of migrants trying to cross from Guatemala into Mexico in order to travel to the U.S.
Interior Minister, Olga Sanchez Cordero said thesoldiers had not exercised “repression”.
Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said they had beenpelted with stones, but had nevertheless acted correctly, and that there hadbeen no injuries.
About 3,300 mostly Honduran migrants reached the borderon the weekend, in a caravan that had taken-off from northern Honduras earlierin the week.
Mexico refused to let them travel to the U.S.
The two countries agreed in June to stem migration,and Mexican President, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s government deployedthousands of soldiers for the purpose.

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Mexico: Nigerian Embassy Shut As Six Staff Test Positive For Covid-19 - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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August 8, 2022
In a statement on Monday, Abimbola Tooki, special adviser on media to
Adejare Bello, Nigerian ambassador to Mexico, said six staff of the embassy tested positive for COVID-19.
According to the statement, the ambassador, while announcing the closure, said it will last for seven days beginning from August 8.
He said the affected members of staff are undergoing treatment and that the situation is under control.

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Microblogging :Twitter Has Agreed To All FG’s Conditions – Keyamo - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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November 29, 2021
Keyamo who is also a member of a committee, set up to review the operations of the microblogging platform since its ban in the country, said the committee has made significant progress so far.
He added that the recalibration, we have started it and the President graciously added me to the committee.
“We also set up a technical committee to interface with Twitter and come up with a lot of conditions for them to fulfill for us to lift the suspension.
“It was Twitter that reached out to the Federal Government to say they want to know what and what they can do to straighten up the relationship with the Federal Government and so, we have gone far but I may not, at this forum, let out a lot but we gave them a lot of conditions and they have agreed to all the conditions,”.

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Microsoft Delegation Meets Osinbajo, To Open Development Centres In Nigeria, Kenya - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 18, 2019
The Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has received adelegation from US-based technology giant, Microsoft Corporation, at thePresidential Villa, Abuja.
Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement,said the delegation was led by Phil Spencer, Executive Vice President of Gamingat Microsoft.
Spencer discussed about the firm’s plan to set upAfrican Development Centres in two locations on the continent, Nigeria andKenya.
He said that the African Development Centre would bethe 7th Global Development Centre for Microsoft across the world.
Osinbajo told the delegation that the FederalGovernment was exploring all possibilities and opportunities to ensure thatbroadband connection was available to Nigerians.
He said that President Muhammadu Buhari’s administrationalso planned to  use technology to reduce some of the deficits in thehealthcare and educational systems.


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Middle East: Syria Calls For UN Security Over Israeli Invasion - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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July 22, 2022
The Ministry in separate letters sent to the Secretary General and President of the UN Security Council drew attention to what it terms criminal aggression of the Zionist regime in Damascus.
The letters stated that on Friday, July 22, 2022, the Israeli forces fired
rockets from the occupied Golan Heights to the suburbs of Damascus.
Syrian Authorities claimed that the missile attack left 3 Syrian soldiers killed.
While emphasizing its right to respond to repeated Israeli aggressions by
using the appropriate tools approved by international law and the UN Charter, Syria Affairs called on the Security Council and the UN Secretariat to take responsible actions condemning Israel.


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Middle-East Tensions: NATO To Hold Urgent Meeting Today - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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January 6, 2020
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has called an urgent meeting of the military alliance’s North Atlantic Council today, Monday in response to growing tensions in the Middle East.
TheAmbassador-level meeting of the alliance’s main decision-making body will addressthe situation in Iraq after the killing of Iranian top general GhassemSoleimani by the U.S. military.
TheAmbassadors of the North Atlantic Council usually meet once a week, while itsforeign and defence ministers meet around twice a year.

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Migration: 158 Nigerians Return From Libya - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 12, 2019
The National Emergency Management Agency NEMA todayreceived another batch of 158 Nigerians from Libya.
The Head of NEMA Territorial Office in Lagos, IdrisMuhammed, told newsmen that the agency received the returnees on behalf of theFederal Government.
The returnees from Libya arrived in the country few hoursafter 187 Nigerians returned from South Africa.
Muhammed said the Libya returnees were brought backin a chartered flight, Al Buraq Air aircraft, which landed at the cargo wing ofthe Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos.
According to him, the evacuation of this batch ofNigerians from Libya was facilitated by the International Organisation forMigration IOM and the European Union EU under the Assisted Voluntary ReturneesProgramme.
Other agencies involved in the reception of thereturnees were the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking inPersons NAPTIP, Nigeria Immigration Service and the Federal Airports Authorityof Nigeria.

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Migration: Commission Encourages Act, Says It Develops Skills, Perspective - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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April 21, 2019
Federal Government has reiterated its support to migration, saying that it should be seen as positive development, bringing new skills, energy, perspective and experiences.
Federal Commissioner, National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons, Sadiya Umar Farouq stated this when the commission in partnership with Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation organized a two-day media capacity building workshop.
Declaring the workshop open, Sadiya noted that a great deal of media reports erroneously criminalize migrants by linking asylum seekers, refugees and other migrants with insecurity, social-cultural and economic threats.
Represented at the workshop by the Director of Migration and Refugees in the commission, Lawal Mohammed Hamidu, she said migration has been part of the history of mankind and should not be misunderstood.
She urged the media to always speak for the migrants even as he enjoined them to educate the youth on the dangers of irregular migration and the opportunities for migration in the regular way.

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Migration: Commission Says Movement Of People Critical To AFCFTA’S Success - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 1, 2021
Director, Gender, Poverty and Social Policy Division, UNECA Thokozile Ruzvidzo made the call during the media conference on the Africa Regional Review of the Implementation of the Global Compact for Migration being hosted by the Kingdom of Morocco in Rabat.
She noted that the purpose of the regional review of the Global Compact for Migration was to help Africa in migration data collection and assist in the implementation of the continent’s integration.
The Global Compact for Migration was formally endorsed by the UN General Assembly in December 2018 and is not an international treaty and will be non-binding under international law.
International Organisation for Migration, IOM Chief of Mission to Ethiopia and Representative to the African Union and UNECA, Maureen Achieng, in her Contribution, pointed out that migration and human mobility were core potential for human development in Africa. She also stressed that the Global Compact for Migration recognised that properly managed migration contributed to positive development outcomes and provided operational frameworks for the achievement of people-centred and human rights based governance of migration.

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Migration: Commissioner Tasks Media On Effective Reportage - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Abubakar Abubakar
April 9, 2019
The Federal Commissioner, National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons, Sadiya Farouk has urged media practitioners to effectively report and educate the public on dangers of irregular migration.
Sadiya said this at a two-day capacity building workshop for media practitioners on migration reporting on Tuesday in Keffi, Nasarawa State.
Sadiya who was represented by the Director Refugees and Migration of the Commission, Mohammed Lawal, said that Media represented a critical domain for management of migration issues in the world.
She said the aim of the workshop was to ensure that Nigeria Media have a better understanding of migration trends, dynamics and use of migration terminologies correctly in their reporting.
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Migration Day: Unions Urge FG To Domesticate I.L.O Conventions On Fair Migration - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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December 18, 2019
The National Trade Union Platform on Migration has calledfor improved management of migration governance by the Federal Government.
The platform comprises migration focal persons from theNigeria Labour Congress, NLC and Trade Union Congress, TUC affiliate unions.
The NLC focal person on Migration, James Eustace, made thecall in a statement to mark the International Migration Day, in Abuja.
According to Eustace, the Federal Government must ratify anddomesticate the relevant international instruments such as I.L.O Convention143, Convention 181, along with Convention 189, which promotes fair and orderlymigration.
He, however, said that one of the most important steps mustbe to ensure that the push factors propelling irregular migration areaddressed.
The NLC focal person also listed the critical push factorsto include massive unemployment, especially youth unemployment, and thecomplete absence of social protection floors in Nigeria.

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Migration: ECOWAS To Establish Academy In Nigeria - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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June 16, 2019
The Comptroller General of Nigeria Immigration Service, Muhammad Babandede has said that ECOWAS would set up a Migration Academy in Tugga, Kebbi State, to train immigration officers in the sub-region
Babandede said this at the Passing out Parade of 396 cadets of the 44th Superintendent Basic Course in Kano.
He said the day decision to establish the institution was taken at a meeting of ECOWAS Heads of Immigration held in Abuja in 2017.
He said the academy, when established, would help in training officers and border security personnel within the sub-region.
Babandede said the institution would also strengthen collaboration between immigration officers and border security personnel within the sub-region.
He added that the academy would help officers to learn French to enhance regional corporation and strengthen the capacity of the personnel.
In her remark, the Permanent Secretary,  Ministry of Interior, Georgina Ehuriah said the event represented a sincere demonstration of government commitment to strengthen national security architecture and gainful employment.


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Migration: NIS Decry Alarming Rate Of Nigerians Moving To Other Countries - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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November 4, 2022
The Comptroller of Immigration Service in Enugu State, Joachim
Olumba, made the disclosure on Thursday of a sensitisation campaign on the scourge of Smuggling of Migrants for stakeholders in Enugu State.
He said that the appetite to jet out of the country was usually driven largely by social, economic and security concerns.
He said that Nigerians, especially the youth, were leaving the shores of the country in their droves.
The comptroller said that the desperation had brought unspeakable and unprintable hardships on numerous migrants that many have oftentimes been subjected to various degrees of harrowing experiences that eventually hunt them for the rest of their lives.

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Migration: SGF Tasks Course 12 Participants To Proffer Solution - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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March 15, 2019
TheSecretary to the Government of the Federation Boss Mustapha has called for astudy and research on determinants of external migration.
Mustaphamade the call on Friday in Abuja during a courtesy visit by the ExecutiveIntelligence Management Course 12 participants of the Institute for SecurityStudies.
Mustaphawho was represented by the Permanent Secretary, Special Services Office, AminaShamaki, said that this would address and put the challenges of migration inproper perspective.
He urgedthe participants to embark on specific study on livestock systems includingpastoralism and ranching to address the frequent clashes between herders andfarmers.
Mustaphasaid that the Federal Government has a strong desire to reduce the spate ofinsecurity and economic challenges occasioned by the international migration.
According to him, innovative local initiatives are being developed in many parts of West Africa in order to facilitate and protect livestock mobility in a sustainable manner.


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Migration: UNHCR, ECOWAS Move To Tackle West Africa’s Crisis - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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April 15, 2019
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the Economic Commission of West Africa States, ECOWAS have called for urgent need to tackle migration crisis affecting the sub-region and protection of persons of concern.
Both organisations made the call during the opening of the fourth ECOWAS Ambassadors’ retreat on Monday in Uyo with the theme: “Mixed Population flows and durable solutions in the ECOWAS Region”.
The retreat brought together stakeholders and ECOWAS Ambassadors representing Member States to discuss the phenomenon of mixed movement within the sub-region.
The retreat also aims at deliberating on important regional issues and to advocate for the implementation of relevant policies in Member States.
UNHCR’s Regional Representative, Liz Ahua, said that displaced persons in the West Africa sub region presents a new challenge that would only be resolved by a joint action of all.
Also speaking, Jean Kassi Brou, President, ECOWAS Commission, said that the theme of the 2019 retreat was apt given the challenges facing the sub-region with the movement of its citizens to Europe.


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Mikel Arteta Insists There's 'Much More' To Come From Gabriel Martinelli - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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February 3, 2023
The club confirmed the news this morning, with the contract set to keep the Brazilian winger at the Emirates until the summer of 2027.
His previous deal was due to expire at the end of next season, though the club did have an option to extend that for a further two years.
Martinelli has been an integral part of Mikel Arteta’s title-chasing team this season, scoring seven goals in 19 Premier League matches.
Arteta told the club’s official website that they are delighted Gabi has signed a new long-term contract, noting that they are excited to continue to develop his huge talent and look forward to seeing him perform with Arsenal in the years to come.

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Militancy: 5,000 Refugees Head Home Voluntarily From Zambia To Dr Congo – United Nations - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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December 22, 2021
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR said the first 100 people had set out to return to the country on Tuesday, adding that security had improved sufficiently in Congo’s Pweto territory, Haut-Katanga province, for them to go home in safety and dignity.
The UN Agency Spokesperson, Babar Baloch told journalists in Geneva that as security has improved in some areas of Haut-Katanga, an estimated 20,000 refugees have spontaneously left Zambia since 2018 to return to their areas of origin, mainly to Pweto territory.
Inter-ethnic clashes as well as fighting between Congolese security forces and militia groups in parts of southeastern of the country in 2017 have uprooted communities.
Through intention surveys carried out in October by UN agency  , some 4,774 refugees expressed their aim to voluntarily return to Congo.
The voluntary repatriation, which will continue into 2022, is part of the ongoing 2006 tripartite agreement between UNHCR and the governments of Zambia and Congo.

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Militancy: French Foreign Minister Accuses Russian Mercenaries Of Despoiling Mali - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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January 31, 2022
The US Army last week estimated hundreds of Wagner personnel were in the Sahel state, but the country’s ruling army has denied this.
It was learnt that relations between the two countries have deteriorated sharply since Mali’s army led by Colonel Assimi Goita staged a coup in August 2020.
Former colonial power France has thousands of troops deployed in the Sahel state, which has been struggling to contain a rebellion that first emerged in 2012.
The Minister said Wagner mercenaries are former Russian soldiers, armed by Russia and accompanied by Russian logistics, adding that they are already at the moment helping themselves to the country’s resources in exchange for protecting the junta.

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Militancy:Army Confirms Killing Of Soldier, 2 NSCDC Operatives In Rivers - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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June 17, 2019
Asoldier and two operatives of the Nigerian Security and Civil DefenceCorps,NSCDC were  shot dead on Sundayfollowing a gun duel with suspected militants in Rivers.
Thesecurity operatives were killed and their weapons carted away while preventingmilitants from vandalising an oil and gas facility in Gio community, Tai areaof Rivers.
Thespokesman of the 6 Division of the Nigerian Army in Port Harcourt, Colonel AminuIliyasu, confirmed the killings in a statement made available to Newsmen onMonday.
Iliyasusaid the army later deployed more troops to the area with intent to apprehendthe fleeing militants as well as other criminals in the community.
Hesaid the cordon and search operation led to another gun duel with  alleged cultists and an oil bunkering kingpinwanted by security agencies in the state.
Thespokesman said Korobe Menele, a prime suspect in the killing of the securityoperatives, was shot dead in the gun duel with troops.


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Militant Bus Attack: U.S. Condemns Killing Of 31 In Mali - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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December 6, 2021
State Department spokesman Ned Price in a written statement recalled that unknown gunmen on Friday opened fire on the bus as it traveled from the village of Songho to a market in Bandiagara, 10 kilometres away.
The villages sit in the heart of the Mopti region, an epicenter of violence in Mali fueled by insurgents linked to al Qaeda and Islamic State.
He added the Uninted state extend it condolences to the Malian people and will continue to partner with them in their pursuit of a safe, prosperous, and democratic future.
The terrorists’ attacks have surged across Africa’s Sahel region, killing thousands and displacing millions across Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger republic.
In another development, a Rwandan Court has sentenced to five years in prison a former Director of Kigali’s main prison Innocent Kayumba for stealing money from a British inmate.
A Court document has indicated that Kayumba, who was sentenced alongside his former Deputy Eric Ntakirutimana, has appealed against the verdict,

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Military Airstrike Did Not Kill Fishermen In Lake Chad – DHQ - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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October 1, 2021
The Acting Director, Defence Media Operations, Brigadier General Bernard Onyeuko, said this in a statement in Abuja.
Onyeuko explained that the air Component, acting on credible intelligence on the activities of terrorists in an identified ISWAP camp at the said location, conducted air strikes on the target on September 26.
He said the air interdiction was conducted after careful Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance missions revealed the activities of ISWAP elements in the location.
According to him, the intelligence gathered was processed and carefully analyzed between the period of Aug. 19 and Sept. 23.

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Military Coup: Sudan Pro-Democracy Faction Settles For Un-Brokered Talks - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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January 17, 2022
Spokesperson for the Central Council for the Forces of Freedom and Change, CCFFC Jaafar Hassan in a press statement said the council decided to accept the invitation of the United Nations mission, UNITAMS to support dialogue between the parties to the Sudanese crisis.
He added that a delegation from the Council will meet on Sunday with UN mission to deliver the coalition’s vision regarding the initiative for dialogue between the various Sudanese parties.
Another key civilian group, the Sudanese Professionals Association, however, has rejected the UN’s offer.
It was however gathered that protesters have been holding regular marches against the military since it overthrew the civilian-led government of Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok last October. They want the military to be kept out of the transitional governing coalition.

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Military Court Sentences Deposed Leader's Brother To 15 Years - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 25, 2019
A military court in Algeria has jailed the brotherof the deposed former president Said Bouteflika, following a two-day trial.
A private TV channel reports that Bouteflika wasgiven a 15- year sentence, along with two former intelligence chiefs and theleader of the Workers’ Party.
The four defendants were arrested in May, shortlyafter weeks of pro-democracy protests forced long-time leader Abdelaziz Bouteflikato resign as president.
They were accused of conspiring against the stateand undermining the military.
A former defence minister, Khaled Nizar, is reportedto have been given a 20-year sentence in his absence by the court in Blida, acity south of the capital Algiers.
Said Bouteflika was widely seen as the real powerbehind the presidency after his brother suffered a stroke in 2013.

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Military Forces Neutralise 21 Bandits Kingpins In Zamfara - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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March 29, 2023
A military source, said the bandits’ kingpins killed include Yellow Mai Naira and nine members of Hamisu Black who were terrorising innocent citizens in Mayasa, Birane, Yanbuki, Kwashabawa and other villages around Zurmi Local Government Area, some parts of Kaura Namoda, Shinkafi Local Government Areas and Niger republic.
Authorities confirmed that the onslaught against the recalcitrant terrorist’s will be sustained to ensure restoration of peace in Northwest and the country as a whole.
The sources also added that the troops killed another dreaded terrorist kingpin, Maikwaahara and his 11 gang members at Marak’e village of Gusau Local Government Area of the State.
The operations were led by the Commander, Joint Task Force Northwest Operation Hadarin Daji/General Officer Commanding 8-Division Nigerian Army, Major General G. M Mutkut, along with the commander of 1-brigade Nigerian Army, Gusau, Brigadier-General, S Ahmed, who is in charge of Zamfara, Kebbi states and other military operatives.


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Military Invasion: Court Orders CBN To Pay N8 Billion To Benue Communities - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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August 20, 2019
AnAbuja High Court has ordered the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN to immediatelypay the sum of eight billion naira to Tiv communities in Benue invaded bysoldiers sometime in the year 2001.
Themoney was awarded in favour of the communities in Logo, Ukum, Kwande andKatsina-Ala Local Government Areas of the state for the loss of lives andproperty they suffered during the invasion by soldiers of the Nigerian Army in2001.
JusticeNyang Ekwo gave the order following the garnishee application by thecommunities for the enforcement of the consent judgment delivered by the Courtof Appeal in Enugu on February 2, 2015.The Judge, who had earlier granted thepreliminary “garnishee nisi”, made the garnishee order “absolute” by orderingthe CBN to pay the sum of eight billion naira into an interest yielding accountto be domiciled with  First Bank of Nigeria administered by the ChiefRegistrar of the court.


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Military Junta: ECOWAS Countries To Shut Borders, Withdraw Ambassadors From Mali - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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January 10, 2022
This is part of the outcome of the Extraordinary Summit of the
ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government held on Sunday
in Accra, Ghana.
The Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on Media and
Publicity, Laolu Akande, disclosed this on Monday in a statement titled,
‘ECOWAS countries to shut all borders against Mali, recall
ambassadors, reject junta’s transition schedule.’
He stated that after reviewing the situation in Mali at the summit, the
sub-regional leaders rejected the transition schedule proposed by the
Malian military junta which they said was totally unacceptable.
The body also imposed additional sanctions on the junta, including the
suspension of all commercial and financial transactions between
ECOWAS states and Mali.
It, however, exempted some products such as essential consumer goods,
pharmaceutical products, as well as medical supplies and equipment,
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Military Junta: Mali Summons French Envoy Over President Macron’s Criticism - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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October 6, 2021
It was gathered that tensions between France and its former colony Mali has been high since it emerged that the Sahel state is in talks with Russian mercenaries.
These frustrations were on full display at the UN General Assembly last month, when Mali’s interim Prime Minister, Choguel Kokalla Maiga accused France of abandonment in full flight over its decision to reduce its military deployment in the semi-arid Sahel region.
Macron later told French media that Maiga’s comments were “unacceptable” and suggested that Mali’s government was not even really one, because of the coup in Mali led by Colonel Assimi Goita in May.
The war of words continued on Tuesday when Macron called on Mali’s ruling military to restore state authority in large areas of the country abandoned in the face of the armed uprising.

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19 Terrorists Killed in Lake Chad - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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April 8, 2020
The Multinational Joint Task Force has said it had killed 19 Boko Haram terrorists while conducting Operation Yancin Tapki at Tumbums in Lake Chad region.
The raids, which were supported by Air Task Force,resulted in the bombardment of the insurgents’ hideouts.
The Task Force spokesman, Colonel Timothy Antigha, in a statement said the combined forces from  Nigeria and Niger Republic extensively bombarded the insurgents’ hideout in Tumbums community.
The statement added that the troops destroyed two gun trucks and captured two more suspects during the duel.
However, the sect on Monday evening attackedKirchinga village in Madagali Local Council of Adamawa State.
The terrorists stormed the community at about4:00pm, burning homes and looting shops.


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Military Kills 34 Terrorists At Kaduna/Niger Border Village - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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March 31, 2022
Military sources said the Air Component of Operation Thunder Strike
following credible information that at about 2pm on March 30, 2022,
about 70 terrorists on 40 motorcycles and some on foot were sighted
moving towards the Akilibu – Sarkin Pawa Road, near Mangoro village,
scrambled an aircraft to intercept and neutralise the terrorists.
The locals while commending the military for their improved swiftness
to emergencies, also charged them to ensure they apprehend those
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Military: Leah Sharibu, Others Will Be Rescued - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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January 11, 2022
It also welcomed the gazette that affirms bandits as terrorists and vowed a change in its battle against them.
Chief of Defence Staff General Lucky Irabor stated this on a TV programme.
Leah was one of the 110 female students of the Government Girls Science and Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe State, abducted on February, 19 2018, by Boko Haram terrorists.
While others were released by the terrorists following negotiations, Leah, then 14, is still being held.
During the programme, Irabor said the military was working hard to ensure that everyone in the captive of either terrorists or bandits, is rescued.
The Chief of Defence Staff, who also welcomed the official recognition of bandits as terrorists through a gazette, assured Nigerians that the military would give bandits a bloody nose.

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Military Panel Probes Wadume’s Confession, Summonses Police - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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August 22, 2019
TheJoint Investigative Panel set up by the Defence Headquarters to probe thekilling of three police in Ibi, Taraba State, has started an investigation intothe video showing the arrested kidnap kingpin, Hamisu Wadume, indictingsoldiers over his escape.
Alsoinvited are the Police, Air Force, Department of State Services, DSS and othersecurity agencies for a joint meeting to examine security challenges facing thecountry.
Policeon Tuesday confirmed they arrested the suspect from his hideout in the LayinMai Allo, Hotoro area of Kano State.
ThePanel headed by Rear Admiral Ibikunle Olaiya has top officers drawn from thepolice, army, navy, air force, DSS and the Defence Intelligence Agency.


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Military Should Kill All Bandits, Bomb Forests — El-Rufai - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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April 20, 2021
The Kaduna state Governor Mal. Nasir El-Rufai said the only way to make schools safe is to kill all bandits.
According to the  governor  on Tuesday in Abuja at an ongoing conference on Financing Safe Schools in Nigeria.
In his statements, the Nigerian Air Force should should bomb the forests where bandits have been using as hide-outs.
He said, “Nobody living in the forest is innocent and we must kill them all.
Nasir El-Rufai  added that The Chief of Air Staff has been doing well and this has led to a reduction in the activities of bandits in recent times.
The governor also suggested that drones should be bought and deployed to assist in the fight against banditry and other forms of criminality.
In addition, banditry can also be stopped if people stop negotiating with them and paying them ransoms.
“People ask if my child was kidnapped and I say that I won’t pay, it is a personal decision, which we do not all support.
“So the only way to stop banditry is to kill them all,” he said.
He mentioned that  in 2016, his government traced some violent, aggrieved Fulani to their countries and paid them to stop the killing of Southern Kaduna natives and the destruction of their communities.
In his words he said, “For southern Kaduna, we didn’t understand what was going on and we decided to set up a committee under Gen. Martin Luther Agwai (rtd) to find out what was going on there. What was established was that the root of the problem has a history starting from the 2011 post-election violence.
“Fulani herdsmen from across Africa bring their cattle down towards Middle Belt and Southern Nigeria. The moment the rains start around March, April, they start moving them up to go back to their various communities and countries.
“Unfortunately, it was when they were moving up with their cattle across Southern Kaduna that the elections of 2011 took place and the crisis trapped some of them.
“Some of them were from Niger, Cameroon, Chad, Mali and Senegal. Fulanis are in 14 African countries and they traverse this country with the cattle.
“So many of these people were killed, cattle lost and they organised themselves and came back to revenge.
“So a lot of what was happening in Southern Kaduna was actually from outside Nigeria. We got a hint that the late Governor Patrick Yakowa got this information and he sent someone to go round some of these Fulani communities, but of course after he died, the whole thing stopped. That is what we inherited. But the Agwai committee established that.
“We took certain steps. We got a group of people that were going round trying to trace some of these people in Cameroon, Niger Republic and so on to tell them that there is a new governor who is Fulani like them and has no problem paying compensations for lives lost and he is begging them to stop killing.
“In most of the communities, once that appeal was made to them, they said they have forgiven. There are one or two that asked for monetary compensation. They said they have forgiven the death of human beings, but want compensation for cattle. We said no problem, and we paid some. As recently as two weeks ago, the team went to Niger Republic to attend one Fulani gathering that they hold every year with a message from me.”


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Military Takeover: ECOWAS, Nigeria Condemns Guinea Coup D’état - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 6, 2021
President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana and Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, faulted the action in separate statements in Abuja. They described the coup d’état as a clear violation of the ECOWAS Protocol on Democracy and Good Governance, demanding for the immediate return to constitutional order.
Akufo-Addo, who is also the Chair of the Authority of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government, demands the immediate and unconditional release of President Alpha Condé as well as others arrested.
Onyeama stated that Nigeria Government also condemns and rejects any unconstitutional change of government and therefore called on those behind this coup to restore constitutional order without delay and protect all lives and property.
Conde’s third term Presidency had earlier sparked violent and mass protest in the country after a disputed election in October 2020 and a new constitution in March 2020 which allowed him to sidestep the country’s two-term limit.

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Military To Flush Out Militants In Benue, 2 Other States - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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December 21, 2019
The Nigeria Defense Headquarters has said that ‘OperationWhirl Stroke’, OPWS had achieved its set mandate and would wind down in phases.
The Acting Director, Defence Information, Brigadier GeneralOnyema Nwachukwu announced this in Gbise, Katsina-Ala Local Government Area,during a media tour of crisis-hit areas in Benue and Taraba state.
The Operation, which was launched on May 2018, with amandate to end the herders/farmers crisis, covers Benue, Taraba and NasarawaStates.
Nwachukwu explained that the Defense Headquarters is notplanning to immediately shot down the operation even though operation hadachieved its set mandate. He said that the proposed winding-up would be inphases.
The Spokesman explained that the Task Force had, during theoperations, carried out both kinetics and non- kinetics approaches so as to restorepeace in the three states.
The Force Commander, OPWS, Major General Adeyemi Yekini, whoalso spoke, disclosed that the outfit had conducted 23 peace meetings withstakeholders as a result of the Tiv/Jukum crisis.

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Military To Take Delivery Of Super Tucano Fighter Jets In 2020 – Presidency - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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July 31, 2019
The Federal Government has reiterated its determination tocontinue to procure sophisticated weapons to keep the nation’s military in goodfighting shape, saying the country will take delivery of Super Tucano fighterjets in 2020.
A statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the Presidenton Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, in Abuja, said the fighter jets, expectedfrom the United States, would be deployed in checking terrorist activities inthe country.
Shehu, who lauded the efforts of the armed forces insuppressing the activities of Boko Haram and other terrorist groups in thecountry, described as `fantastic’ the recently launched “Super Camps’’ by themilitary.
According to him, the essence of this is to act proactivelyand respond quickly to the changing nature of terrorism.
The presidential aide noted with delight that the Buhariadministration had made the country safer than it met it in 2015.


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Military Yet To Receive Order To Commence Operations In Niger- DHQ - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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August 3, 2023
The Defence Headquarters was reacting to news reports that the military had begun assembling troops for the military action in Niger.
The Economic Community for West African States had on Sunday imposed several sanctions on the military junta in the country and also issued a seven-day ultimatum to return power to a democratically elected government.
The ECOWAS threatened to commence military operations in the country should the junta ignore the ultimatum.
However, in a statement, the Director of Defence Information, Brigadier General Tukur Gusau, said the Defence Chiefs in the region were still meeting in Abuja and would submit their plans to the Head of Governments and States for approval.
He added that without their approval, the military cannot commence operations in Niger.

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Mindiver: Nigeria Secures $150m World Bank Loan For Programme - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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April 10, 2019
The Federal Government has secured 150 milliondollar loan from the World Bank to develop the sector, in a bid to make the miningsector deliver on its responsibility of repositioning the economy.
Besides, the Ministry of Mines & SteelDevelopment said it has also handled the issue of low funding through the 30billion naira  Intervention Fund meantfor exploration to help sectorial growth.
Speaking at a programme organised by theManufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) in Lagos, the Minister of State forMines and Steel Development, Abubakar Bawa Bwari, said the Ministry hasundertaken far reaching re- forms and developed strategies to fulfil itsmandate, having been identified as a sector to facilitate the FederalGovernment’s diversification efforts and source of additional revenue.
He said the mandate given to the ministry was toincrease the revenue generation from the sector, broad- en the sector’scapacity to create jobs, and implement policies that will engender sustainablemining.


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Minimum Wage: Adamawa Governor-Elect Promises To Implement Proposed N30,000 - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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March 29, 2019
Adamawastate Governor-elect, Ahmadu Fintiri, has promised to implement the new minimumwage of 30,000 naira when approved by President Buhari.
Fintiriwho emerged winner on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP made thepromise on Friday while speaking with newsmen in Yola.
Hedefeated incumbent Governor Muhammadu Bindow of All Progressives Congress, APCand 28 other candidates in the just-concluded supplementary governorshipelection.
Healso assured students that his administration would be committed toresuscitating scholarship scheme, youth empowerment and other programmes tomove the state forward. He thanked the people of the state for electing him andpromised not to disappoint them.


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Minimum Wage: Association Cautions Traders Against Hiking Prices Of Commodities - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 11, 2019
The National Association of NigerianTraders, NANTS has cautioned traders against commodities price increase due toimplementation of the minimum wage.
The President of the Association KenUkaoha gave the advice at a one-day training workshop for NANTS leadership ontracking commitment of political actors to farmers and Traders Charter ofdemand in Katsina.
He said that it was unnecessary andimmoral for traders to increase their commodities price due to minimum wageincrease.
The President says no trader dealson all items of need and once a trader raises the prices of his or hercommodity, others will jerk up the price of their commodities. He said that thefarmers and traders had made arrangements with the political actors in thecountry before the 2019 General Elections.
Earlier, the Katsina StateCoordinator of Association Ibrahim Suleiman, urged members to be proactivetowards monitoring the agreements made with political actors.


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Minimum Wage: Association Seeks Payment For Junior Workers - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 7, 2019
The Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association, NECA has urged the Federal Government to begin the payment of the national minimum wage to junior workers and those in the low income category while negotiations on consequential salary adjustments are ongoing.
The Association’s Director General, Timothy Olawale who made the plea urged the labour union and the government to come to a concession and reach a ground on the minimum wage negotiations, so that the people on the lower rung of the ladder would not suffer.
Read this: Minimum Wage: NYSC Boss Assures Corps Members Of Increase In Allowance
Olawale said if both parties cannotreach an agreement, the government should go ahead and implement minimum wagepayment to junior staff, whenever they reach a decision, the difference can bepaid to those concerned.
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC hadearlier warned that the government could no longer hide under prolongeddialogues with workers in the public sector for consequential salary adjustmentto delay the implementation of the new minimum wage.

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Minimum Wage: Bill Undergoing Standard Procedure — Presidency - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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March 31, 2019
The Presidency confirmed that the New Minimum WageBill was transmitted to President Muhammadu Buhari last week.
The Senior Special Assistant to the President onNational Assembly Matters (Senate), Ita Enang, stated this in Abuja.
The committees of both chambers of the National Assemblyhave passed the approved 30,000 naira as monthly minimum wage against the 27,000 naira proposed by the executive.
While the Senate passed the legislation penultimateTuesday, the House of Representatives passed it shortly before the assemblywent on recess for the general elections in February.
The legislators appealed to the Federal Governmentnot to allow the workers go on strike before its implementation.


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Minimum Wage: Bill Undergoing Standard Procedure — Presidency - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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March 31, 2019
The Presidency confirmed that the New Minimum WageBill was transmitted to President Muhammadu Buhari last week.
The Senior Special Assistant to the President onNational Assembly Matters (Senate), Ita Enang, stated this in Abuja.
The committees of both chambers of the National Assemblyhave passed the approved 30,000 naira as monthly minimum wage against the 27,000 naira proposed by the executive.
While the Senate passed the legislation penultimateTuesday, the House of Representatives passed it shortly before the assemblywent on recess for the general elections in February.
The legislators appealed to the Federal Governmentnot to allow the workers go on strike before its implementation.


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Minimum Wage: Buhari Directs Immediate Conclusion Of Adjustment - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 12, 2019
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed theimmediate conclusion of negotiation on the consequential adjustment between thegovernment and the Joint National Public Service Negating Council to ensureimmediate implementation of a new minimum wage.
The President also directed the setting up of aPresidential Committee on Salaries and Wages to be saddled with theresponsibility of receiving complaints and reviewing salaries and work scheduleas well as assigning appropriate salaries to different categories of workers
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator ChrisNgige disclosed this when he received the leadership and members of the LabourCorrespondents Association of Nigeria, LACAN in his office in Abuja.
Ngige added that the president also directed that atime limit should be set for the conclusion of negotiation between governmentand workers.
He said the president was worried the delay inconcluding negotiation, will lead to a huge backlog of arrears that many statesmay not be in a position to pay as the states were waiting for the conclusionof negotiation at the federal level.

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Minimum Wage: Discussions To Continue September 4th - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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August 24, 2019
The Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council and representatives of the Federal Government, will resume on September 4th to continue negotiations on the new national minimum wage.
Read This: Minimum Wage: FG, Labour Meet To End The Long delay
Thenegotiators adjourned to the new date to allow President Buhari to wade intothe disagreement of contingency and substantial adjustments on the new minimumwage.
The meeting,which held in Abuja, had the Permanent Secretaries of finance and labourministries, as well as representative of the National Salaries, Incomes andWages Commission in attendance.
The NationalPresident, Nigeria Civil Service Union, also one of the Labour leaders in thenegotiations, Lawrence Amaechi said that both parties had agreed to considertheir stance and allow the President to decide on the issue.
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Minimum Wage: End Impasse Now, Labour Tells FG - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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October 8, 2019
TheNigeria Labour Congress has urged the Federal Government to conclude thenegotiations for the consequential salary adjustment of the 30, 000 naira newnational minimum wage so that all workers would have a reason to smile at theend of this month.
TheNLC had given the government the October 16th deadline to either resolve theissue or risk an industrial action.
Speakingin Abuja on the sideline of 2019 World Decent Work Day, NLC Vice President,Benjamin Anthony said there could not be decent work without decent wages,adding that the national minimum wage is the floor for decent wages.
According to him,workers are tired of a world where they are exposed to worsening health andsafety situations with increased cases of deaths and injuries at work.The National Union ofPostal and Telecommunications Employees NUPTE challenged employers, especiallyprivate telecommunication companies operating in Nigeria, to respect decentwork principles and the rights of workers to form and belong to a union oftheir choice without restriction.

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Minimum Wage: Expert Says Policy Will Not Cause Inflation - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 5, 2019
Aneconomic expert, Uche Uwaleke said the new minimum wage would not lead toinflation contrary to speculations by some Nigerians.
Uwaleke,the Head of Banking and Finance, Nasarawa State University, Keffi said this inan interview in Abuja.
Herecalled that the monthly reports by the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS hadshown that inflation in Nigeria, against the backdrop of low economicactivities was more of the cost-push type than demand-pull. This, he said wasdriven more by high cost of fuel, electricity and transport.
TheExpert added that historical evidence does not also support the claim that thenew minimum wage would worsen inflationary pressure.It would be recalled that the last economicrecession was caused by weak aggregate demand when many state governments couldnot pay salaries due to reduced FAAC allocations from dwindling oil prices.


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Abubakar Abubakar
April 29, 2019
The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami has said that there is no other requirement on the part of the government for the commencement of the payment of the new wage.
He noted that with the assent of President Buhari to the new minimum wage of thirty thousand naira there is no other hurdle barring or delaying state governments, ministries, departments and agencies, MDAs from implementing the new pay structure.
The Minister’s explanation came amid a report that his office was yet to release a certain instrument authorizing payment, the absence of which would unduly delay the takeoff date of the new pay.
Malami observed that the signing into law by the President completed the process of implementing the new wage, which takes effect from April.


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Minimum Wage: Federal Government, Workers’ Face-Off Deepened As Labour Rejects Sack Decision - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 2
October 5, 2019
Organised labour has described astatement by the Minister of Labour and Employment  Chris Ngige, that theFederal Government might sack  some workers in the public service shouldlabour insist on having its way on the implementation of the thirty thousandnaira minimum wage as mere blackmail.
The Secretary, Joint National PublicService Negotiating Council Alade Lawal, said that labour would not beintimidated by such threat. He also criticized claim by Ngige that governmentwould require five hundred and eighty billion naira annually to pay workers theminimum wage across board as demanded by labour.
Lawal said the government teamnegotiating the consequential adjustment on minimum wage was yet to reach outto labour to tell them when negotiation would resume. He insisted that labourwould not back down on its percentage increase demand from government forworkers on levels 7-14 and levels 15-17.
A statement issued by Ngige’s SpecialAdviser on Media, Nwachukwu Obidiwe quoted the minister as asking workers tomake some sacrifice for the country.

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Minimum Wage: Federal Government Yet To Reconstitute Team - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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October 7, 2019
The Federal Governmentis yet to set up a team to negotiate with the Joint National Public ServiceNegotiating Council, despite the threat by the organised labour that it willembark on industrial action if its demand on the implementation of the newminimum wage is not met by October 16.
The Minister of Labourand Employment, Chris Ngige had during a visit by labour leaders, said a newgovernment team will replace the old one headed by the former Head of the CivilService of the Federation, Winifred Oyo-Ita.
Ngige said he andother ministers in the former negotiating committee were unable to be part ofthe first phase of the discussion, because the cabinet was dissolved andpermanent secretaries took the places of ministers in the team.
He added that theformer committee made considerable progress and promised that the new teamwould reach an agreement with labour over the implementation of the new minimumwage.

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Minimum Wage: FG Blames Labour For Delay In Implementation - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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August 12, 2019
The Federal Government has attributed delay in the implementation of the “Consequential Adjustment” of the N30, 000 new minimum wage to the unrealistic demands of labour unions.
TheChairman, National Salaries, Income and Wages Commission, Richard Egbule madethis known in an interview with Newsmen in Abuja on Monday.
Egbule explained that the current demand of the labour unions would raise the total wage bill too high and that was why government could not accept their proposed salary adjustments.
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Hesaid that at the last meeting between the Federal Government and the labourunions, the government proposed a 10 per cent increment for level seven to 14and a 5.5 per cent increase for level 15 to 17.
Egbuleadvised labour to come to a compromise because government had so far beenmagnanimous in agreeing to increase salaries without any threat of downsizing.
Hereiterated the commission’s commitment to giving sound advice to the governmenton the portion of national income that should be devoted to the payment ofsalaries and wages.


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Minimum Wage: FG Inaugurates Committee To Adjust Workers’ Salaries - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 15, 2019
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, has inaugurated a committee to negotiate the consequential adjustment in salaries arising from the new national minimum wage.
Mustapha, who inaugurated the committee in Abuja, said the gesture was in accordance with President Muhammadu Buhari’s remarks at the signing of the new National Minimum Wage Act, 2019.
He said the President had said there would the constitution of another committee to negotiate the issue of relativity over the new wage with relevant labour unions.
Members of the committee from the side of government include Ministers of Labour and Employment, Finance, Budget and National Planning, Health, Education and the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice.
Mustapha said that the mandate of the Committee would be to negotiate the consequential adjustment in salaries arising from the new national minimum wage.
In her remarks, the Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Winifred Oyo-Ita commended the Federal Government for considering members of the committee worthy to serve.


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Editor 2
October 9, 2019
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, commenced dialogue with labour unions again in Abuja as time runs out on a deadline issued by labour for the payment of a new wage approved for workers by the Federal Government.
The meeting is the latest in a series of meetings with labour leader, to commence the payment of the consequential adjustment in the new minimum wage, signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari since April 18th this year.
The leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Trade Union Congress and the Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council are participating in the latest meeting with Ngige.
On October 7th, labour leaders issued a communiqué, warning that economic activities would be shut down on October 16th, if the Federal Government failed to reconvene a meeting of the committee on consequential adjustments.
Speaking today, the Secretary-General of the Council, Alade Lawal, told a meeting of the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria in Abuja that workers had started mobilising for strike.

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Minimum Wage: FG, Labour Meet To End The Long delay - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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August 23, 2019
The Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council and the representatives of the Federal Government are currently meeting to put an end to delays in the implementation of the new national minimum wage.
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Themeeting, holding at the Office of the Secretary to the Government of theFederation, is expected to bring to an end continued disagreements in thepercentage of consequential adjustments.
Thenew minimum wage bill was signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari inApril.
However,deliberations between government and labour had been stalled over the issue ofrelativity/consequential adjustment of salaries.
TheFederal Government had, on May 14, inaugurated the relativity/consequentialadjustment committee, which, in turn, set up a technical sub-committee to workout the template for the adjustment of salaries of public service employees.
Ata meeting between the government and labour in July, the former had proposed a10 percent increment for workers on Grade Level 7 to 14 and 5.5 percent forthose on Grade Level 15 to 17.


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Minimum Wage: FG To Clear Arrears Of Varsity Workers - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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August 27, 2021
Minister for Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, disclosed this at the
end of a meeting between the Federal Government and the Joint Action
Committee (JAC) of the two unions, convened to examine the level of
implementation of the Memorandum of Action, it signed with the unions
in February, 2021.
Ngige commended the unions for their understanding and maturity in
cooperating with government to resolve their issues, emphasizing that
government did not take them for granted.
In a statement on Saturday by Deputy Director of Press and Public
Relations, Charles Akpan, the Minister disclosed the meeting was a
continuation of an earlier one held on 25th February, 2021 at his
instance, and at which agreements were reached on various issues
concerning members of the unions.
He stated that the meeting agreed that the payment of the arrears be fast-
tracked between now and the end of October, adding that arrears in
salary and promotion had been captured in the 2021 Supplementary
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Minimum Wage: FG To Reconstitute Negotiation Team As Talks Resume Today - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 2
September 27, 2019
The Federal Government is to reconstitutea committee on the consequential adjustment of wages in the civil service toreflect the new thirty thousand naira minimum wage.
Labour and Employment Minister,Chris Ngige, who announced in Abuja when a delegation of the Nigeria LabourCongress, NLC led by its President, Ayuba Wabba visited him, explained thatreconstituting the team became necessary as Ministers were expected to takeover negotiations from permanent secretaries.
It was learnt that advancenegotiations of the consequential adjustment of the minimum wage from gradelevels seven to seventy, would continue today.
Wabba, who said the Joint Council,has informed the NLC and Trade Union Congress, TUC of the deadlock, urged Ngigeto intervene in resolving areas of disagreements.Responding, Ngige said government would involvethe two labour centres in the negotiations going forward to ensure that all thestakeholders are fully carried along

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Minimum Wage: FG Unrealistic Labour Demands Delaying Implementation - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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July 22, 2019
The Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Winifred Oyo-Ita, has said that unrealistic demand from senior civil servants is delaying the implementation of the new Minimum Wage.
Negotiation between the Federal Government and the Joint National Public Negotiation Council broke down two weeks ago because of differences in percentage increase in the salaries of workers.
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Whilethe Federal Government representatives in the technical committee set up tonegotiate the consequential increase had proposed 9.5 per cent salary increasefor workers on Grade Levels 07 to 14 and five per cent increase for employeeson Grade Levels 15 to 17, labour representatives are demanding for 30 per centsalary increase for workers on Grade Levels seven to 14 and 25 per cent forworkers on Grade Levels 15 to 17.
Whilespeaking with journalists at the opening ceremony of a retreat on 2017-2020federal civil service strategy and implementation plan organised by the Officeof the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation in Abuja on Monday.
Oyo-Ita said the Federal Government underPresident Muhammadu Buhari was committed to the implementation of the newMinimum Wage, calling on labour to review its demands.


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Minimum Wage: Gov. Sule Inaugurates 24-Member Implementation Committee - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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January 7, 2020
Governor Abdullahi Sule, of NasarawaState, has inaugurated a 24-member committee to work-out modalities for theimplementation of the new minimum wage in the State.
The committee, according to thereport,  is chaired by the State DeputyGovernor, Emmanuel Akabe and has 11 representatives from government and 13 fromthe organised labour.
Speaking at the inauguration, thegovernor said the committee was set up in fulfillment of his promise to improveliving conditions of workers through better welfare package.
Sule charged the Committee to beguided by the revenue accruals to the State vis-à-vis its ability to pay theminimum wage
According to him, the terms ofreference of the Committee are to obtain and study the National Minimum WageAmendment Act, 2019 and the consequential adjustment at the federal level.
Others, he said, are: To obtain andstudy copies of agreements reached between the Federal Government and the organisedlabour, in line with the consequential adjustment/increase in all the salarystructures.

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Minimum Wage: Head Of Service Says Unions’ Unrealistic Demands Delay Implementation - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 4
July 23, 2019
TheHead of the Civil Service of the Federation Winifred Oyo-Ita has said that theunrealistic demands by the Senior Staff Union members were responsible for thedelay in the implementation of the New National Minimum Wage.
Shesaid this at the two-day retreat for top management staff of the Office of theHead of the Civil Service of the Federation, Manpower Development Institutesand Federal Training Centres in Abuja.
Theretreat was on the 2017-2020 Federal Civil Service Strategy and ImplementationPlan, meant to drive the transformation of the Nigerian civil service in linewith global standard.
She also said that a Presidential Committee on Consequential Adjustment has been set up for smooth execution of the minimum wage and that negotiations were on between the government and the unions.


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Minimum Wage: Kano, Zamfara, Kwara, Rivers, Kogi, Edo Ready To Pay N30,000 - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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April 20, 2019
Thegovernments of Kano, Zamfara, Kwara, Rivers, Kogi and Edo States have agreed topay the new minimum wage of thirty thousand naira.
GovernorAbdullahi Ganduje said in Kano that  his administration has given priorityto the welfare of civil servants in the state, and why it is not owning itsworkers.
GovernorAbdul Aziz Yari Abubakar Zamfara State said under his watch, the governmentwould do everything possible to ensure the welfare of workers in the state doesnot suffer.
Alsothe Osun State government said it will await guidelines on payment of thethirty thousand naira. It added that it is already a law the state will onlywait for the implementation guidelines.
GovernorAbdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara State said his administration is also prepared forthe payment of the new minimum wage.
Asimilar committee was set up by the Kogi State government,  and thegovernment says  laws are made to be obeyed and they are sure the FederalGovernment will make it convenient for states to pay the new minimum wage.


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Minimum Wage: Kano, Zamfara, Kwara, Rivers, Kogi, Edo Ready To Pay N30,000 - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Abubakar Abubakar
April 20, 2019
The governments of Kano, Zamfara, Kwara, Rivers, Kogi and Edo States have agreed to pay the new minimum wage of thirty thousand naira.
Governor Abdullahi Ganduje said in Kano that  his administration has given priority to the welfare of civil servants in the state, and why it is not owning its workers.
Governor Abdul Aziz Yari Abubakar Zamfara State said under his watch, the government would do everything possible to ensure the welfare of workers in the state does not suffer.
Also the Osun State government said it will await guidelines on payment of the thirty thousand naira. It added that it is already a law the state will only wait for the implementation guidelines.
Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara State said his administration is also prepared for the payment of the new minimum wage.
A similar committee was set up by the Kogi State government,  and the government says  laws are made to be obeyed and they are sure the Federal Government will make it convenient for states to pay the new minimum wage.


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Minimum Wage: Labour And Federal Government In Final Move To Forestall Strike - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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October 15, 2019
The Federal Government and Labour unions are involvedin a last minute negotiation, to forestall a nationwide strike by workers,schedule for October 16.
Labour has resorted to the strike option, following anapparent inability of government and labour to find a way out of the minimumwage logjam.
The two parties have engaged in endless and oftenfruitless meetings, raising anxiety and frustrations among public sectorworkers, who have waited patiently over the months for the new wage.
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngigewhile speaking at the continuation of a conciliatory meeting, said it is anopportunity for information sharing and an avenue to soften ground for a finalmeeting today, Tuesday. He told the labour leaders to be open-minded in theirdialogue so that both parties could get a way out of the minimum wage logjam.
Also speaking, the Deputy President of the NigerianLabour Congress, Amaechi Asugwuni, who spoke for organised labour said themeeting was called by the minister to share information with labour leaders.

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Minimum Wage: Labour Confirms Payment Of N30,000 To Junior Workers - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 23, 2019
The National President of the NigeriaCivil Service Union and member of the Joint Public Service Negotiating Council,Lawrence Amaechi has confirmed the commencement of the minimum wage payment tojunior workers on the federal payroll.
Amaechi said officers on grade levels01 to 06 got the new minimum wage as their August salary.
He said that after the collapse ofnegotiation between the government and the workers representatives on theconsequential adjustment negotiation, the government went ahead to commence thepayment of the wage to the workers.
The Federal government in a circular,announced that workers on grade level 01 to 06 who are not involved in theconsequential adjustment should begin to enjoy the new wage, a position organisedlabour initially rejected.

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Minimum Wage: Labour Congratulates Buhari, Urges Him To Give Assent To Bill - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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March 1, 2019
The Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria hasurged President
Muhammadu Buhari to assent to and enforce the new minimumwage
Act as soon as passed by the Senate.
Secretary-General,Bashir Lawal, made the appeal in Lagos ina
congratulatory message to the president on his re-election.
Lawal said that Buhari should not delay in signing the newwage bill
when ready.
He noted that the bill had already been approved by theHouse of
Representatives.
Lawal commended the president for ensuring timely payment of
workers’ salaries.
He said that it was good that the president did not lay offworkers, noting
that the labour market was over-saturated.
The Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria scribesaid that there
was no doubt that workers omitted or short-paid would besettled
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Minimum Wage: Labour Congress Draws Battle Line With States - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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January 7, 2020
TheNigeria Labour Congress, NLC has cautioned three States yet to make moves toopen negotiation on the consequential adjustment of the minimum wage ofthirty-thousand naira.
NLCPresident, Ayuba Wabba, who issued the warning when he appeared on a nationaltelevision, he listed the affected the states as Kogi, Cross River and Taraba,which he said should be ready for a showdown with the Labour.
Heobserved that twenty-three States have taken substantial steps to resolve theissues of consequential adjustment of the minimum wage, through negotiationwith their labour leaders.
Wabbaapplauded ten States that had started paying the minimum wage with itsconsequential adjustment, insisting that the law which fixed the minimum wagemust be respected by all the State governments.
TheLabour President said it is gratifying that the Federal Government had startedpaying the arrears of the new wage from April last year, when the law wasenacted. He noted that the leadership of Labour decided to monitor developmentsat State levels to avoid situations whereby workers will be offered peanuts.


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Editor 4
April 11, 2019
Organised labour under the aegis of Trade Union Side of the Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council has urged President Buhari to assent to the thirty thousand naira Minimum Wage Bill. This was coming on the heels of Senate’s approval of the Bill last month.
A statement by the Union’s Chairman, Abdulrafiu Adeniji, and Secretary, Alade Lawal, stressed that the current eighteen thousand naira minimum wage had become very inadequate, as workers were finding it extremely difficult to cope with daily challenges thrown up by skyrocketing prices of goods and services.
The group noted that Buhari’s quick signing of the wage bill into law would bring smile to the faces of workers.
In a similar vein, the National Pension Commission,(PENCOM has explained that it launched the Micro-Pension Plan to pull Nigerians out of poverty and reduce financial stress among families of those in the informal sector.


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April 11, 2019
Organised labour under the aegis of Trade Union Side of the Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council has urged President Buhari to assent to the thirty thousand naira Minimum Wage Bill. This was coming on the heels of Senate’s approval of the Bill last month.
A statement by the Union’s Chairman, Abdulrafiu Adeniji, and Secretary, Alade Lawal, stressed that the current eighteen thousand naira minimum wage had become very inadequate, as workers were finding it extremely difficult to cope with daily challenges thrown up by skyrocketing prices of goods and services.
The group noted that Buhari’s quick signing of the wage bill into law would bring smile to the faces of workers.
In a similar vein, the National Pension Commission,(PENCOM has explained that it launched the Micro-Pension Plan to pull Nigerians out of poverty and reduce financial stress among families of those in the informal sector.


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June 4, 2019
The organised labour has dismissed insinuations thatthe Federal Government is not sincere to implement the thirty thousand nairanew minimum wage.
The President General of the Trade Union Congress,TUC Bobboi Kaigama said this in Akure during the fifth Triennial Delegates’Conference of the Ondo State chapter of the union where Helen Odofin emergedthe new State Chairman.
Kaigama insisted that the new minimum wage asapproved by President Muhammadu Buhari was not a scam.
Swearing-in the new officers, Kaigama who wasrepresented by the Secretary-General of TUC, Musa Lawal noted that apresidential technical committee to work out new salary templates had been setup and expected to submit its report next week.
Kaigama explained that labour unions and theirleaders were not sleeping.
The TUC President assured that organised labour werefollowing developments at the committee to ensure workers were not shortchangedwith the new minimum wage table.


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Editor 4
July 29, 2019
The General Secretary of the Nigeria LabourCongress, Peter Ozo-Eson, said the Federal Government and labourrepresentatives on the technical committee set up to negotiate consequentialincrease arising from the new minimum wage would resume negotiation this week.
After negotiation broke down between the governmentand labour on what workers at various grade levels would get as salaryincrease, the NLC, Trade Union Congress and the Joint National Public ServiceNegotiation Council wrote separate letters to the Secretary to the Governmentof the Federation, Boss Mustapha.
In the letters they complained of introduction ofnew terms of reference by the Federal Government team that were not in the documentpresented by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, when heinaugurated the negotiating committee on May 14th, 2019.
On Wednesday, the Boss Mustapha and representativesof Joint National Public Service Negotiation Council met in Abuja where issuesthat led to the breakdown of negotiation were discussed.


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Minimum Wage: Labour Not Responsible For Implementation Delay - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 4
August 16, 2019
The President of the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, AyubaWabba has expressed workers concerns over the delay of the new National MinimumWage which was signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari.
The new National Minimum Wage was signed into law byPresident Buhari on Thursday 18th April 2019.
Wabba also dispelled the notion that labour is answerablefor the delay in implementation of the law which according to him, was alsotold that the person that made that delay is the chairman of the technicalcommittee.
He explained that TUC and NLC are not directly driving theprocess of consequential adjustment, the process is ongoing.


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Minimum Wage: Labour Rejects Federal Government’s Proposal - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 4
June 15, 2019
The committee set up by the Federal Government to negotiate the substantial modification arising from the thirty thousand naira new minimum wage has rejected what the government is offering.
The committee, which was inaugurated on May 14, has also failed to meet the four-week deadline to submit its report.
However, members met twice last week with the enlarged membership collapsed into one technical committee of six members each from both sides.
The Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Winifred Oyo-Ita, who was appointed as chairman of the panel, stepped down for the chairman of the National Wages, Salaries and Income Commission to head the technical committee.
A principal officer of a labour union, who pleaded anonymity, said government’s position on the substantial modification had been rejected by labour representatives in the committee.


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Minimum Wage: Labour Seeks Buhari’s Intervention On Implementation - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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August 15, 2019
The organised labour has pleaded forPresident Muhammadu Buhari’s intervention to resolve the disagreement over thethirty thousand naira new minimum wage. The Federal Government and labour againfailed to reach an agreement over payment of the new minimum wage at a meetingin Abuja on yesterday.
As the Federal Government isproposing a ten per cent salary increase for workers on grade level 07 to 14and five point five per cent for those on grade level fifteen to seventeen,labour is demanding twenty nine per cent for workers on grade level 07 to 14and twenty four per cent for those on grade level 15 to 17. However, bothparties will resume negotiations in Abuja next week.
A source said that labour wasinsistent on its demand while government negotiators refused to improve ontheir proposals. It added that a meeting that was scheduled for today had beencalled off.
The Chairman of the NationalSalaries, Income and Wages Commission, Richard Egbule said labour’s demandswould significantly increase the total wage bill hence the government would notaccept the proposed salary adjustments.8���G�,�pW�


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October 16, 2019
The Federal Government and Organised Labour are tocontinue their meeting today, Wednesday to allow for sorting out all grey areasof contention.
A top Labour Official, who pleaded anonymity, saidthat the organised labour had shifted its earlier position from 29 per cent to25 per cent for grade levels seven to 14, while for levels 15 to 17 now 20 percent, which was earlier 24 per cent.
The Federal Government has made its earlier positionto shift from levels seven to nine to 17 per cent and levels 10 to 14 at15 per cent. It also shifted that of levels 15 to 17 to 12 per cent.
The Head of Service Folashade Yemi-Esan expressed hopethat the meeting would get to a logical conclusion today.
The Deputy President of NLC, Amaechi Asugwuni, whilespeaking the end of the meeting, on behalf of the organised Labour, urged tothe Federal Government to shift grounds for agitation ahead.

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Minimum Wage: Labour Urges FG To Commence Implementation Before May 1 - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Abubakar Abubakar
March 20, 2019
The Nigeria Labour Congress NLC wants the FederalGovernment to commence the implementation of the new National Minimum Wage forworkers in the country before the May Day Celebration.
Acting President of NLC, Najeem Yasin, who made thecall in Abuja commended the Senate for approving the minimum wage bill of 30,000naira on Tuesday and called on President Buhari to quickly sign the bill intolaw.
The House of Representatives had earlier approved 30,000naira as new national minimum wage before the went on break for the 2019general election.
The Nigeria Governors Forum had proposed 24,000 nairawhile the Federal Government forwarded 27,000 naira to the National Assembly.
Yasin, who is also the National President ofNational Union of Road Transport Workers NURTW, called on the federalgovernment to ensure effective sanctions for employers who refused to implementthe 30,000 naira National Minimum Wage.